The Best of Australian Science: April 2014
FollowIt’s the end of April, 2014. It’s our time to summarise what we have done during this month. In fact, we are going to recount the best highlights for April.
Here are the most exciting and interesting articles of this month.
What is Big Data, and why it matters? by Danica Radovanovic
Big Data refers to technology (tools and processes) and large amounts of data that is difficult to store, manage, analyse, share, and visualise with the traditional database software tools. From the semantic perspective, big data isn’t new concept at all: every time we generate data, we also generate metadata, “data about data